Hello again, dear friends,

First, thank you so much for the lively discussion during today's Coop-WG. I genuinely appreciate your enthusiasm and care for this important process.

I have CCed all of the current candidates for co-chair here (I realize they are all also on the list, but as I hope many of you appreciate, I'm a fan of redundancy). To refresh your memory, these are:

Achilleas Kemos -- from the European Commission's DGConnect. He was present today and gave an overview of his work and his interest during the working group.
Collin Anderson -- Network Researcher and Internet Policy enthusist. He was also present today, and provided an overview.
Analina Aspis -- Lawyer and Researcher at the Law Research Institute Ambrosio Gioja, specializing in ICT law. She was not present today, but you can read her overview posted in a previous Coop-WG thread
Johan Helsingius -- (tentative nominee, as above). I'm not sure of his background or interest, but I invite him to disclose this in an email here.

I invite those on this list to suggest other nominees, to ask questions and make comments to the current nominees, and to continue the lively discussion.

As I mentioned, I will be receptive to suggestions and will work to distill the decisions of the community in a week's time, disclosing such in an email to this list. If there are those here who feel strongly that we should extend the process beyond a week, please speak up here. I am sensitive to the need for discussion, and don't want to rush anything. That said, before the next meeting I need a co-chair. This is the responsible move on my part, to ensure I'm not a single point of failure in the case that I change jobs, have the flu during a meeting, etc..

Best,

Meredith

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com> wrote:

The outreach bit has proved problematic in the past. I remember a group trying to talk to a MEP. The relationships that are not obvious to outsiders are not always obvious to insiders either!

On the other hand I appreciated the work of NCC in drafting a formal response, effectively on behalf of the WG, to a Commission proposal.

We need to talk more about this.The potential is there.

Gordon

On 25 May 2016 at 17:05, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> wrote:

there may be room for both here. The co-op WG has a mandate for outeach
outside the existing community, but the chair function needs to
understand what ripe/ripe ncc is and how it serves its community. This
is not always obvious to outsiders (e.g. "ripe ncc is not the police", etc).

Meredith Whittaker
Open Research Lead
Google NYC